Diverse albedos of small trans-neptunian objects

Icarus

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 184-191

  Grundy, W M ^a   Noll, K S ^b   Stephens, D C ^b,c  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Kuiper belt objects; Surfaces; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844385768     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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